A Week in the Life of a 4 Year Old

It was a busy week for the little man. He was promoted from the WUMC 4 year old class to the 5 year old class and said goodbye to his first teacher, Mrs. Childress. He learned valuable lessons from the bible and the fact that God is with him wherever he goes. He keeps asking me everyday since Weds. if he is going to school that day. No conception of time at all, but hey he's only 4, right? He is starting to learn that some things come to an end.

His last soccer match was Saturday and let's just say he was a semi-participator. I could have really given him more instruction on the sport but I didn't have the energy to scream my lungs out at him on what to do if he wasn't going to listen. His attention span right now is about as short as a munchkin's child and at this young age, I'm content with him running around and having fun and believe me that is exactly what he did. He did make a friend in the beautiful girl sitting next to him on the floor. She is the daughter of a woman I went to college with who was a super athlete and softball player and now works as the SID for our alma mater.

While George went crabbing Saturday we set up the tent and prepared for our campout. This was Nathan's first time and I wondered how he would take spending the entire night out there in the dark. He is deathly afraid of it and has to sleep with the tv or a night light in his room. I decided to use the portable dvd player and some of his favorite discs as his comfort pill and it worked like a charm. We cooked hot dogs and toasted marshmallows and with a wonderful southerly breeze blowing he played to his hearts content in the fire pit with sticks. He noticed the fireflies right away and they were magical lighting up the pine trees like christmas lights. We turned in around 11 that night.

I listened to the various sounds throughout the night, always have been a light sleeper, and it was so beautiful. The owls howled back and forth to each other and a dog must have been running a fox because he gave it a good chase for a while. I heard something walking near the edge of the wheat field and shone the spotlight on a coyote. Once he was noticed he took off for the woods. Early in the morning the birds started talking and the sun started coming up. He slept till 6:30 and then we headed for the hot tub. He told me he really had a good time and can't wait to do it again. Me either, from the first smell of the tent when I walked in it, it evoked such childhood memories of backyard campouts with family and friends. And I highly recommend investing in an air mattress. Why sleep on a bumpy ground when you can be elevated to dreamland!